MONTREAL — Port workers, members of Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 375, began a three-day strike here Sept. 30. Union members rejected the employers’ last offer by over 99%, and voted 98% to authorize a strike. Of the 1,197…
Fruit: ‘Two strikes on the front line of class struggle’ UNION CITY, N.J. — “Fuel prices are so high that truckers see little income and farmers get even less from what they produce,” Paul de Leon, a truck driver from…
EAST PALESTINE, Ohio — “We got railroaded on Wednesday,” Chris Albright, representing Justice for East Palestine Residents and Workers, told a meeting of 30 people here Sept. 28, referring to the decision by Judge Benita Pearson to approve the $600…
MONTREAL — “I have a straightforward, realistic program — workers in our millions should take power into our hands,” Dennis Richter, the Socialist Workers Party candidate for vice president, told 32 people at a Militant Labor Forum here Sept. 28.…
An appeals court hearing Sept. 26 offered further confirmation that New York Judge Arthur Engoron’s conviction of Donald Trump in a civil fraud case last year was an egregious and politically motivated ruling. The case was cooked up by Democrats…
Over the last few weeks Israeli forces have decimated the leadership of Tehran-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon, killing its longtime leader Hassan Nasrallah; destroying thousands of its rocket launchers; disrupting much of its communication systems; and began pushing it out of…
Hezbollah’s actions have earned it the hatred of millions across the Middle East. The reactionary group has never had majority support in Lebanon, and many still fear violent reprisals if they speak out against Hezbollah. Israel’s victories are an aid…
MIAMI — As daylight broke Sept. 27, Floridians in the Big Bend area around Tampa awoke to devastation wrought by Hurricane Helene, a Category 4 storm. With water levels surging 15 feet above ground level, it hit Steinhatchee and other…
For the first time in 20 years, five prisoners were executed in the U.S. in a single week, Sept. 20-26. Seven more are scheduled to be killed before the end of the year, further testimony to the brutality of the…
Some 45,000 members of the International Longshoremen’s Association went on strike Oct. 1, shutting down three dozen ports from Maine to Texas. It’s the union’s first strike since 1977. Forty percent of U.S. imports come through these ports. Like tens…
